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Recent missions that uses radioisotopes for thermal electricity have included the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
Enough heat should have also been generated within the body through the radioactive decay of radioisotopes locked up in its rocks — that would've melted the ice.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 July 2025
But radioisotopes decay more slowly in the Polesian marshes than elsewhere; the marshes’ mix of marshy, sandy, and clay soils provides almost perfect conditions for radioactive fallout to pass from the soil into plants.
—Franziska Exeler, The Dial, 18 Feb. 2025
At that point, NRG will stop producing medical radioisotopes at its older Petten reactor.
—Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
Enough heat should have also been generated within the body through the radioactive decay of radioisotopes locked up in its rocks — that would've melted the ice.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 1 July 2025
But radioisotopes decay more slowly in the Polesian marshes than elsewhere; the marshes’ mix of marshy, sandy, and clay soils provides almost perfect conditions for radioactive fallout to pass from the soil into plants.
—Franziska Exeler, The Dial, 18 Feb. 2025
At that point, NRG will stop producing medical radioisotopes at its older Petten reactor.
—Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Radioisotope.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radioisotope. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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radioisotope
noun
ra·dio·iso·tope
ˌrād-ē-ō-ˈī-sə-ˌtōp 
: a radioactive isotope
Medical Definition
radioisotope
noun
ra·dio·iso·tope
ˌrād-ē-ō-ˈī-sə-ˌtōp
: a radioactive isotope compare radioelement
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